Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is a documentary about the Apple co-founder, examining both his public career and his private life. It traces his path from a suburban childhood through his time at Zen temples in Japan to the head of one of the world's wealthiest companies, and considers why his death in 2011 prompted an outpouring of grief from millions of people who never knew him. The film also looks at the contradictions in his character, weighing his reputation for brilliance against the way he treated friends, associates and colleagues.

Alex Gibney directed and wrote the film, and produced it with Viva Van Loock, for Jigsaw Productions, Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films. It sits between Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Zero Days in a run of documentaries he made during the 2010s, a period that also includes The Armstrong Lie and Mea Maxima Culpa. Among the twenty credited participants are former Apple employees and associates such as Bob Belleville and Nolan Bushnell, along with Chrisann Brennan, who speaks about Jobs's relationship with their daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

The film runs 129 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.9 from around 6,800 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 6.6 from roughly 260 votes, indicating a generally favourable but not enthusiastic response from viewers.